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Document ID (ISN)29756
CIS number 78-1350
ISSN - Serial title 1775-8785 - Archives des maladies professionnelles
Year 1977
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Devulder B., Plouvier B., Furon D., Martin J.C.
Title Cadmium nephropathy
Original title La néphropathie cadmique. [in French]
Bibliographic information Dec. 1977, Vol.38, No.12, p.983-992. 62 ref.
Abstract Study covering the following aspects of this question: mechanisms of renal toxicity of cadmium (direct cellular toxic action through the agency of metallothionein; indirect toxic action of vascular origin); clinical and biological aspects (acute poisoning; chronic poisoning (particularly proteinuria)); biological and ultrastructural aspects of cadmium nephropathy (lesions can be detected by electronic microscope as from the 15th day of poisoning, etc.); problem of arterial hypertension in chronic poisoning; therapeutic aspects (attenuation of cadmium toxicity by sodium nitrilotriacetate, etc.).
Descriptors (primary) toxicology; cadmium; nephrotoxic effects; renal diseases
Descriptors (secondary) hypertension; acute poisoning; renal damage; round-up; histopathology; chronic poisoning; medical treatment; proteinuria
Document type -
Subject(s) Toxic and dangerous substances
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Inorganic substances
Diseases of the kidney and the urinary system
Cadmium and compounds